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...feminine as immanence and contingency. Replayed again and again, these pictures remain more powerful than their attendant plotlines—so powerful, in fact, that they prove almost impossible to puncture. The pairing of sex and violence, femininity and victimhood, becomes normalized, creating a culture where women die by the dozens in primetime...
...most overdone subject matter in pop: love. On “I Remember,” Chris Keating croons, “You’re stuck in my mind all the time,” and even sings, “With you I’d die today.” But do not be fooled into thinking Yeasayer have gone soft. They still find ways to work their fresh confidence into this more traditional type of song. “Love Me Girl” is hardly a passive request for female attention, and the title phrase...
...Afghan officials know that die-hard Taliban forces have been burying hundreds of improvised explosive devices around the town in recent weeks. "It's giving time and space to those who want to fight to dig in," says Ali Jalali, who served as Afghanistan's first post-Taliban Interior Minister and now works with the Pentagon's National Defense University in Washington. "It could be very bloody, and that could affect public opinion in Europe...
Mourning Sickness In modern movies, when a father and daughter are shown in an affectionate relationship, you know one of them has to die. Thomas Craven, the cop, is walking into his house with his 24-year-old daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic) when she is gunned down. The official suspicion is that Craven was the target, but he soon learns that she had been engaged in antinuclear espionage at Northmoor, a nearby plant run by the usual oily CEO (Danny Huston). In streamlining the original show's cast of malefactors, which included British and U.S. corporations and intelligence agencies, trade...
...real significance of the plan is symbolic. To a journalist, the Times's admitting vulnerability is a crack in the firmament. It's like that moment when you see your father catching his breath on the stairs and it dawns on you that someday he will die. (And, by extension, so will you.) So other outlets are hoping the Times will show them a way to rage against the dying of the light, if not with the pay wall then with its plan (similar to the efforts of companies like Time Inc.) to develop content for the Apple iPad...